Hilary Peach

Heart Of A Cowboy (Photo: Victor Anthony)

Firewood Crib

Some scrolls in the forge

Bubblegum Coat Racks

Gabriola Forge (Photo: Jack Bones)

BOLT to be released in April, 2018, by Anvil Press

For three decades, West Coast performance poet Hilary Peach has been writing, performing, producing, recording, and facilitating interdisciplinary collaborations and her own solo works. She has performed at events that include the Vancouver International Writers Festival, Montreal's Festival Voix d'Ameriques, and the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam. She has recorded three CDs: Poems Only Dogs Can Hear, Suitcase Local, and Dictionary of Snakes. She was the founder of the Poetry Gabriola Society, inventor of the Poetry Gabriola Festival, and artistic director of the festival for ten years. Her first book of poetry, BOLT, will be released in the spring of 2018 by Anvil Press. A collection of non-fiction essays is due for publication in the fall, also with Anvil. Hilary Peach is also the proprietor of Gabriola Forge, a boutique blacksmithing studio and welding shop that combines traditional methods with modern fabricating techniques to create beautiful, functional, furnishings and art. She maintains an interdisciplinary art practice on Gabriola Island, and works as a welder for the Boilermakers’ Union.

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Originally formed as Festival Gabriola Society on April 15, 1997, the organization became the Gabriola Arts Council effective October 19, 2006. We are a not-for-profit society under the Society’s Act, and a charitable organization under the Charities Directorate. Read more »